Disease is a Funny Thing

09/12/2022

Disease is a funny thing. 

My best friend A, the only doctor I will trust my life with, explains to me the etymology of the word, how it means to have a “lack of ease”; and that disease-specific treatments, however terrifying they may sound, aim to bring back ease into one’s life. 

Over the last few weeks, as I have been faced with decision after decision about what happens next, I go back to this. Disease is merely a lack of ease. And that ease can be restored in a multitude of ways, some more arduous than others. 

I am sitting in the living room as I write this. There is a soft breeze, the house is silent as it usually is. Right now, there is so much ease in my life, it feels like heaven. In this way, I begin my treatment…

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